The original plan saw a casino at one end of Anzac Parade, where the Australian War Memorial is today.

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"Griffin was a teetotaller and fairly conservative when it came to that sort of thing so I don't imagine he would have ever thought of a big gambling establishment in the heart of the national capital," Vernon said.

Lay says Anzac Parade would have led up to the casino.

"It would have been a really bustling kind of place rather than these sweeping expanses that we see (at the end of Anzac Parade)," she said.

Developments like the Kingston Foreshore may come close to the housing Griffin initially envisaged.

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Odgers says today's Canberra "does not come near" what Griffin planned but believes the construction of six-to-eight storey buildings on the corner of Anzac Parade and Constitution Avenue in Campbell are step towards his vision.

"So you'd have a more communal, collective city (rather) than a suburban city which Canberra very quickly became when Griffin left the scene," he said.

Lay tells me that Canberra developed in line with the Federal Capital Commission's concept of large blocks and single dwellings.

5. An arboretum

Vernon says Griffin's arboretum was modelled on the discovery of Gondwana and the idea that today's continents were once one land mass.

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